Tangerine's State Dept. [Marco Rubio] Is Withholding Family Planning Supplies From Famine Stricken Ituri Province In Congo... Deplorable.

The dollar amounts involved are very small. So they can only be seen as. . . punishments, against humans having. . . disfavored sexual congress.

And the ones this "policy" of feckless cruelty truly hurts most. . . are the children born into a world of poverty and disease -- one that they did not choose -- and for which their parents are almost completely unprepared. Many will die in child-birth. . . and many more will suffer from life-long debilitating mal-nutrition. All of it avoidable, for a small cost.

But this is Marco Rubio's new priority: kill as many African children as he can -- in the name of his Catholic "right to lifers". Dammit.

Overall, indeed -- the family planning funds are but a small portion of the USAID former-budget. A budget approved by Congress (repeatedly), and ordered spent (again), two terms ago. No Congressional Act has changed any of the applicable law. Trump is just. . . ignoring it (and he is losing in the federal courts on this attempt -- but at a glacial pace). What a putz. Here's the latest, from Semafor:

. . .A bipartisan pair of senators is urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio to unlock family planning funding and supplies for women caught in the Ebola outbreak sweeping the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s east, warning that the Trump administration’s freeze on such aid is deepening a maternal health crisis.

In a letter shared first with Semafor, Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, asked Rubio to use $608 million in international family planning funds from the fiscal year 2026 appropriations bill and release $1.7 million worth of already-purchased contraceptive products which, the senators said, would otherwise be destroyed.

They also pressed for a “humanitarian exemption” allowing US support for the UN Population Fund, or UNFPA, so it can resume sexual and reproductive health programming in the affected region. President Donald Trump withdrew from the organization earlier this year.

“Providing sexual and reproductive health support to women is not a parallel track alongside the Ebola response: It is the Ebola response for the 642,000 women of reproductive age -- including an estimated 37,820 pregnant women -- in the affected areas,” the senators wrote. . . .

What is wrong with these people?! They would lustily choose cruelty, solely for cruelty's sake. Onward, resolutely just the same.

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